This track is kind of a joke. It that had been about two years in the making, perhaps three. It captured an incredibly bitter, jealous and negative anti-hipster frame of mind that I was in and turned that all of that negative energy into a club banger to be reckoned with. The lyrics contain many of my homegrown catchphrases/lingo that most of my friends are familiar with. The ad-lib lyric "I make my own tastes, h**" is a reference to Northeastern University's Tastemakers music magazine, and it is followed by the irreverent inclusion of the line "Don't tase me, bro", of YouTube/meme fame. The chorus is a joke that I had been repeating to the tune of the chorus to Mariah Carey's 2009 hit song "Obsessed" off of her album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel for a couple years, and a friend of mine said I should turn it into a full song. The production is clearly inspired by the period in popular music preceding the current dance music period, where crunk-influenced songs with handclaps instead of snares were regularly making appearances in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Production-wise, I generally prefer hypnotic to hyphy. If you are offended in some way, I can only quote Theophilius London and say that I make music without anyone's permission. This is the clean version with all the expletives warped.
lyrics
We in this mufuckah...
Verse 1: Errbody in the back of the club/sippin' mad Grey Goose™, gettin' real f***** up/s****** mad b****, rollin' up a couple b*****/gettin' real swole? tell me when you had enough/matter of fact, f*** that, we gon' sip that grain/got all your jaws dropped 'cause you ain't half as chain/you hipsters think you party? b**** you're wack and lame/we're here to represent the f****** 9-7-8, h**
Chorus: Ain't nobody got it like me, ain't nobody swole/poppin' off the chain like me, y'all ain't really know (2x)
Verse 2: And we don't give a f*** how you feel/steady tellin' all you b****** just how to deal/you don't pop bottles? then go and pop a p***/either way, keep it movin', f*** up out my grill/I don't need your opinion and I don't need your reviews/So take it to the pulpit and quit preachin' from the pews/Damn, dead to rights, I'm an outsider/and we gonna see which one of these w****** mouth's wider/I'm speakin' for my people, not some m*********** elitists/you actin' all righteous, but you b****** ain't even J****/It's plain for me to see that y'all the f****** lamest of heathens/what I be smokin' on, man, that's the dankest of species/and I don't need approval, 'cause I say it and mean it/many left the race 'cause this industry's plainly misleading/and I ain't hatin' on the classics, man I still bump the Beatles/so you can keep your tastemaking 'cause my n***** ain't need it
Chorus
Outro: (Vocalizing) I make my own tastes, h**/don't taze me, bro/m*********, don't taze me, h**/whatever gender you is, yo
credits
from Back of the Club - EP,
track released August 13, 2012
Lead vocals by Reuben Walton
Background vocals by Reuben Walton
Lyrics written by Reuben Walton
Produced by Reuben Walton
Edited by Reuben Walton
Mixed by Reuben Walton
Artwork by Reuben Walton
Reuben Walton is a singer/songwriter and music producer based in Falmouth, MA. He is a graduate of Musicians Institute in
Hollywood's Independent Artist program and their Electronic Music Production program, as well as UMass Lowell’s Music Business undergraduate program.
In 2019 he put out a self-titled EP working with producer AVLI Music and is now regularly releasing new music....more
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